Background
I am Professor of Biostatistics at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (MEB) at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, where I’ve been employed since March 1999. My primary research interests are developing and applying statistical methods for population-based studies of cancer patient survival, particularly the estimation and modeling of relative/net survival. I also have general interests in epidemiology, particularly cancer epidemiology. I am deputy head of department and head of the MEB Biostatistics group. I am programme director for the Master’s Programme in Biostatistics and Data Science as well as course director and teacher for courses within the programme.
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Survival analysis
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PhD (Statistics), 1997
University of Newcastle, Australia
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B.Math (honours class 1), 1992
University of Newcastle, Australia
Teaching
I have taught courses in England (London) and Italy (Cison di Valmarino) each summer for 20 years. I will again be teaching in London in 2024, but the Italy summer school will not be held in 2024; we hope to return to Italy in summer 2025.
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22-24 June 2024: I will join the faculty for a 3-day course, Cancer Survival: Principles, Methods and Applications, prior to the NAACCR Annual Conference in Boise, Idaho.
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15-19 July 2024: I will, once more, join the faculty for the course Cancer Survival: Principles, Methods and Applications at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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18-20 November 2024: I will teach a 3-day course in Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis at the Red Door Analytics Winter School 2024. I will be the lead teacher, but other experts will join the faculty. Full details will be available shortly; you can register interest via the link above.
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Summer 2025: I plan to again join the faculty for our 1-week course on Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis in Veneto, Italy, at the Summer School on Modern Methods on Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
I wrote a blog post comparing the courses at the Veneto summer school and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Software
I have co-authored, with Enzo Coviello, Stata commands for estimating and modelling relative survival. Enzo is responsible for all of the nice code.
Some Stata tutorials, most of which are about survival analysis
SAS code for estimating and modelling relative survival. I wrote this code in the 1990s and have since moved from SAS to Stata, so this code is not maintained.
Some SAS tips and tricks (primarily on data management)
Publications
My publication list can be found in my CV, researcher ID, PubMed, or Google scholar. Following are some selected publications.
